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NYSE Gets Approval To Charge More Fees

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that regulators have approved the NYSE Arca's long-standing request to charge more for "noncore" data. 

As explained by reporter Judith Burns, such noncore data include "information such as orders to buy and sell shares at different prices." Core data is defined as information that show "recent trading activity and the best-available current prices," according to the article. 

You can read the story here. 

 

Investors Walk From Mutual Funds Into ETFs

The latest report by TrimTabs Investment Research shows that more than $12 billion flowed out of stock mutual funds in the week ended Dec. 3, according to CNNMoney.com. That reversed the previous week's $10.4 billion inflow into stock mutual funds.

Note at the very bottom of the story that stock ETFs had an inflow of $920 million

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Asset manager IndexIQ, which specializes in trying to replicaste expensive hege fund strategies using low-cost indexing techniques, has turned its attention on high-net-worth investors and the separately managed accounts world.

The company has introduced three new index-based separately managed account products. Two replicate hedge funds-of-funds, and a third SMA that is an ETFs-of-ETFs covering commodities.

IndexIQ already offers an alternative alpha mutual fund and has plans to license its strategies to the exchange-traded funds world as well. The IndexIQ SMAs have investment minimums of $1 million apiece.

The IQ Alternative Beta Portfolio uses multiple hedge fund investing styles including long/short equity, global macro, market neutral, event-driven, fixed income arbitrage, and emerging markets to replicate broad-based hedge fund indexes including the CS/Tremont Blue Chip Index and the HFRX Global Hedge Fund Index.

The IQ Inverse

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Matt is hopeful, which is either a good thing, or the latest sign of the apocalypse.

So we'll hit 10,000 before we hit 6,000? That might seem like a slam dunk prediction from Mr. Hougan.  But is it really?  I wouldn't be so sure.  All it would take would be one more shoe to drop (say a couple more giant banks and an auto manufacture going out of business) and we'd be there in a hurry.

Matt is framing this a bit oddly, seeming to say that the mainstream media is saying the sky is falling while the smart guys are all saying we've turned the corner.  The reality is that generally speaking, the mainstream media is a bunch of cheerleaders and largely have been all the way down.  That said, I do agree that there's a potential whiff of real capitulation in the air.

Until YOU

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RevenueShares has launched the RevenueShares ADR Fund ETF (NYSE Arca: RTR). It's the second exchange-traded fund introduced by the revenues-focused, index-based ETF family in the past week and may bring more competition to the international developed markets (ex-U.S.) category.

The RevenueShares Financials Sector Fund (NYSE Arca: RWW) launched last Wednesday (see story here).

RTR will track the RevenueShares ADR Index, another custom index designed by the ETF company to take a revenues-based slant on a major Standard & Poor's index. The rules-driven methodology re-weights the constituent securities of the S&P ADR Index according to the revenue earned by the companies in that index, subject to certain tax diversification requirements. 

The resulting RevenueShares ADR Index contains the same securities as the S&P ADR Index, but in

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GLD Now Has Bigger Gold Cache Than Japan

Gold holdings in exchange-traded funds rose 150 tons in the third quarter, compared

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Instead of 90 Minutes from New York to Paris, it will be 3 financial products to Full Financial Freedom.

Welcome, Matt, to the dynamic new world of financial security that Bob Shiller has been trumpeting for years.  Today you are hedging off your heating costs (ironically with non-Shiller products), tomorrow, you'll hedge off the risk that real estate prices in Bar Harbor might plunge while laying off your risk as a financial services writer so that you can embark on that searching 3-year research project that frames the past, present and future of the global financial system.

The Shiller ideas, as I've said before here, are pure genius and are aimed exactly at the kind of risk mediation that you're talking about.  Whether they can translate beyond a few  geeks (no offense, Matt) considering a sophisticated macro hedge on their financial life or

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Has Buffet Lost His Touch?

This catchy title no doubt will get a lot of attention. And the author, Simon Maierhofer, makes some pointed short-term observations about Warren Buffett's advice as viewed from his latest press clippings.

Maierhofer then leaps into a discussion of how most ETFs are selling at significant discounts from their high points. Not a startling revelation, but if you've got some time to kill, this piece from the

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Look Who's Talkin'

You've heard it all before. But for the uninitiated, we're providing a link to our own Matt Hougan, who was grilled by reporter Trang Ho for this Q&A appearing in Investor's Business Daily on Tuesday.

Hougan comes through, providing what IU.com readers have become accustomed to -- unblinking analysis and fiercely independent commentary on everything relating to ETFs.

You can see

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